Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 16:20:56 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: danj@3skel.com (Dan Janowski) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw divert, transparent proxy Message-ID: <199707240633.XAA12178@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <33D6E265.46DEFC7@3skel.com> from "Dan Janowski" at Jul 24, 97 01:04:37 am
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In some mail from Dan Janowski, sie said: > > I am replacing an old TIS firewall that has one very > interesting feature that I am looking to provide with my > FreeBSD 2.2.2 box. It is this: > > They use ipfs which has the capability of "transparently" doing > packet re-rerouting and, thereby, proxy transparently. > > (This is my understanding from looking at the config for > about five minutes) > > With the TIS firewall set as a client's default router, > this "transparent" mechanism will take a packet that is > destined for x.x.x.x:port, where x.x.x.x is an exterior > Internet address, and essentially drop the IP address and > deliver the packet to the local "port". IP Filter will support what you're doing, although you'd need to patch the proxy software to use IP Filter. There's some sample patches available for using ftp-gw transparently. Darren
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